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MAD Architects Completes The Cloudscape of Haikou in Hainan Province, China

MAD Architects Completes The Cloudscape of Haikou in Hainan Province, China

Project name: The Cloudscape of Haikou MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has announced the opening of the Cloudscape of Haikou on the southern tip of China. A unique urban public and cultural space for citizens and visitors to Haikou, this flowing, sculptural concrete form was named as one of the “most anticipated architecture projects of 2021” by The Times of London. A prominent port city on the southern tip of China, Haikou was once an important stop on the Maritime Silk Road. With the establishment of the Hainan International Tourism Island and Hainan Free Trade Zone, Haikou's influence has seen a gradual resurgence...

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Toronto Island airport ferry first in Canada to go fully electric

Toronto Island airport ferry first in Canada to go fully electric

The ferry that takes travellers between Billy Bishop Airport and downtown Toronto is about to become 100% electric — the first ferry service in Canada to do so. On Thursday, Ports Toronto transported the Marilyn Bell I ferry from the airport to the DryDock facility on Queens Quay, where the vessel will undergo the final phase of its conversion to electric power. The ferry, in its fully electric lithium-iron-powered form, will be back in service in late 2021. This will mark a significant milestone in PortToronto’s commitment to the environment, the ferry operator says.   “The new propulsion system for...

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IBM's newest quantum computer is now up-and-running: Here's what it's going to be used for

IBM's newest quantum computer is now up-and-running: Here's what it's going to be used for

IBM has unveiled a brand-new quantum computer in Japan, thousands of miles away from the company's quantum computation center in Poughkeepsie, New York, in another step towards bringing quantum technologies out of Big Blue's labs and directly to partners around the world.  A Quantum System One, IBM's flagship integrated superconducting quantum computer, is now available on-premises in the Kawasaki Business Incubation Center in Kawasaki City, for Japanese researchers to run their quantum experiments in fields ranging from chemistry to finance.  Most customers to date can only access IBM's System One over the cloud, by connecting to the company's quantum computation...

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A global food crisis may be less than a decade away | Sara Menker (TED Oct 2017)

A global food crisis may be less than a decade away | Sara Menker (TED Oct 2017)

Sara Menker quit a career in commodities trading to figure out how the global value chain of agriculture works. Her discoveries have led to some startling predictions: "We could have a tipping point in global food and agriculture if surging demand surpasses the agricultural system's structural capacity to produce food," she says. "People could starve and governments may fall." Menker's models predict that this scenario could happen in a decade -- that the world could be short 214 trillion calories per year by 2027.   She offers a vision of this impossible world as well as some steps we can...

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These 7 countries and companies are going to Mars in the 2020s

These 7 countries and companies are going to Mars in the 2020s

Here's what the world's space agencies hope to learn about the Red planet. Three nations have plans to send unmanned missions to Mars in summer 2020: the United States, China, and the United Arab Emirates. SpaceX has discussed executing both manned and unmanned Mars missions this decade, though the company describes these dates as "aspirational." Each space agency plans to study a different aspect of Mars, though searching for signs of past life is a common theme among the missions. Putting humans on Mars is the next giant leap in space exploration, yet it remains a far-off goal for national...

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